# crossplane/crossplane

The Cloud Native Control Plane

Repository: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/crossplane
Homepage: https://crossplane.io
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kubernetes, cloud-computing, cloud-native, containers, serverless, multicloud, cloud-management, cncf, control-plane, infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code
Last push: 2026-08-26T08:26:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2917, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 66}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11979, forks 1239 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:50.592450+00:00)

## What it is
Crossplane is a CNCF framework for building cloud native control planes on top of Kubernetes without writing code. It lets platform teams define custom declarative APIs to provision and orchestrate infrastructure and applications across clouds.

## Use cases
- provision cloud infrastructure from kubernetes manifests
- build an internal developer platform with self-service APIs
- manage multi-cloud resources declaratively
- extend kubernetes to manage any resource anywhere
- encapsulate policies and guardrails behind a custom API layer
- replace terraform with a kubernetes-native control plane

## When to choose
- your team already runs Kubernetes and wants infrastructure as declarative APIs
- you need multi-cloud resource orchestration with continuous reconciliation
- you are building a platform engineering layer with self-service for developers

## When to avoid
- you need simple one-off provisioning scripts without a Kubernetes cluster
- your team has no Kubernetes expertise or operational capacity
- you only need ad-hoc imperative infrastructure changes

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: infrastructure-as-code, cloud, container-orchestration, deployment, api-framework, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted
- platform: go, cloud
- tags: control-plane, cncf, multicloud, platform-engineering, declarative-apis, kubernetes-operators, devops, kubernetes, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- crossplane/crossplane (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.592450+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:01.705127+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.592450+00:00, sha 0331c40b13c5)
  - homepage: https://crossplane.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:12:48.380412+00:00, sha b05902c88810)
  - site_page: https://docs.crossplane.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:12:48.389765+00:00, sha 17aaffe12955)
  - site_page: https://crossplane.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:12:48.391449+00:00, sha cd55fe4876e5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.